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It is taboo in theater circles to say the name of this play, also known as “The Scottish Play”

What is Macbeth

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The main feature of this national park is a large gorge carved out by the Colorado River over millions of years.

What is the Grand Canyon?

200

Newton’s Third Law states that every action has an equal and opposite this.

What is Reaction?

200

These two men were tasked by Thomas Jefferson to lead an expedition to explore the territory the US acquired from the Louisiana purchase and to find a practical route to the west coast.

Who are Meriwether Lewis and William Clark?

200

In January 2021 a 1952 card of this player was sold for $5.2 million. Playing for the Yankees for his entire MLB career, this man is considered one of the best switch hitters in baseball history.

Who is Mickey Mantle?

400

A subplot in this play focuses on a group of actors staging a play very similar to Romeo and Juliet. One of these actors gets his head transformed into that of a donkey by a mischievous fairy.

What is A Midsummer Night's Dream?

400

This Alaskan national park is centered around the highest mountain in North America.

What is Denali?

400

This pioneer of Quantum Physics is probably most known for his thought experiment about a cat locked in a box that is both alive and dead.

Who is Erwin Schrodinger?

400

This man was the first person to lead an expedition that circumnavigated the Earth, although he would die before reaching the end of that journey.

Who is Ferdinand Magellan?

400

Only 57 copies of this Pittsburgh Pirate’s T206 series baseball card are known to exist making it one of the rarest baseball cards in existence. He was known as “The Flying Dutchman” and is considered to be one of the best shortstops in the game’s history.

Who is Honus Wagner?

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This tragedy was actually considered too tragic and in the late 17th century a happier version of the play was written by Nahum Tate. In this version of the play Cordelia and Edgar got married and the titular king survived.

What is King Lear?

600

This network of caves contains many different rooms including Halloween Hall, Lake of the Clouds, and the Mystery Room.

What is Carlsbad Caverns?

600

This subatomic particle, also known as the “God Particle”, is theorized to be part of the reason why things have mass.

What is the Higgs Boson?

600

This man led the first European expeditions to make contact with Australia and the Hawaiian islands.

Who is James Cook?

600

In 2020, this center fielder’s 2009 Draft card sold for around $3.9 million. In 2019 he signed onto a 12 year contract with the Angels, the richest in baseball history.

Who is Mike Trout?

800

This play about a Danish prince features lines such as “To be or not to be” and “Alas, poor Yorick!” and is one of Shakespeare’s most famous.

What is Hamlet?

800

This national park is home to a large number of geysers including Old Faithful.

What is Yellowstone?

800

Albert Einstein is most famous for formulating both the Special and General versions of this theory which revolutionized physics in the 20th century.

What is Relativity?

800

This man famously sailed the ocean blue in 1492.

Who is Christopher Columbus?

800

In 2016 a 1916 rookie card for this player sold for $717,000. While the card shows him as playing for the Red Sox, his contract would unfortunately be sold to the Yankees in 1919.

Who is Babe Ruth?

1000

This fat knight first introduced in Henry IV: Part 1 is regarded as one of Shakespeare’s best characters and would later go on to be the focus of The Merry Wives of Windsor

Who is Falstaff?

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This national park is the largest archaeological preserve in the US and is home to the cliffside dwellings of the Pueblo people.

What is Mesa Verde?

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The linear version of this quantity can be computed by multiplying an object’s mass by its velocity.

What is Momentum?

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This man was cast adrift by his mutinous crew while searching for the Northwest passage. In modern times, he lends his name to a river in New York and a large bay in Canada.

Who is Henry Hudson?

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In March 2021, this player’s card was sold for around $1.1 million. After his death in 1972, the MLB named their annual Commissioner’s award after him.

Who is Roberto Clemente?